Top 1200 Small Gifts Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.

I've tried to live my life in a way that respects the beliefs of my mother and father. Everyone has blessings, gifts, passion, and drive.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.

Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts; it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

Valentine's Day gifts like teddy bears, chocolate and perfume are SO lame. How about be thoughtful and original?

I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

Exactly the style of football I love is like a terrier. We are not the biggest dog, we are small, but we are aggressive, we are not afraid, we like to compete with the big dogs and we are quick and mobile and we have endurance. We never give up. This small dog has fighting spirit for sure.

I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.

The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.

I feel that one of the greatest gifts you can give someone is the truth, but sometimes my words will get stuck on the way out.

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.

Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.

Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.

There are millions in this country of people who bring a lot of qualifications to the table, but I feel that there's an opportunity to be a voice for those people - as somebody who has been a small business owner, who's worked in the tech community, who is a mother of two small children, but also has experience in the public policy arena.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

I had gotten pregnant and decided make this - what people might have thought as a wrong - of course, my greatest gifts in life.

There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

President Obama shopped at a book store to help support Small Business Saturday. He bought fifteen books. His tax policies and his health care law have been so brutal on small businesses the only way they can survive is if he shops there personally.

When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after night, but it's the small variations in those moments - a word, a tone of voice, the smallest sense of enlightenment that can happen in an instant onstage - that will be the most rewarding.

In general, the more entrepreneurs we have, the better off we will be because the economy is driven by small businesses and creative ideas... I'm really excited about what the future holds for women entrepreneurship and to be a small part of that by helping Kim Kardashian and Jessica Alba start their businesses.

If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Small business is where jobs come from. Two-thirds of our jobs come from small businesses.

Be a beneficial presence on the planet. Give your Gifts. Boldly go where no woman or no man has ever gone before.

I feel good cinema, be it big or small, with small actor or big actor, it always works.

Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)

I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.

Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that God has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes up negligible space and can be concealed by shrubs, or you can make a small pit into which you sweep leaves and clippings, but try not to fall into it.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.

I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.